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Télesphore Joseph Grenier

In memory of:

Private Télesphore Joseph Grenier

August 27, 1918

Military Service


Service Number:

291698

Age:

22

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Quebec Regiment)

Division:

22nd Bn.

Additional Information


Born:

December 30, 1895
Dunbar, Wisconsin

Enlistment:

January 8, 1916
St-Boniface, Manitoba

Son of Joseph-Télesphore Grenier and Marie Bolduc, of Dunbar, Wisconsin. He and his two sisters became orphan at a young age and were cared for by their maternal grandfather. This family moved to Canada in 1900 and the grand-father died in 1912. When he enlisted, he named his sister Gladys-Thérèse Grenier as next-of-kin; she married Pierre Ducasse (alias Coss) five months later.

Commemorated on Page 419 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

III. C. 4.

Location:

Wancourt is a village about 8 kilometres south-east of Arras. It is 2 kilometres south of the main road from Arras to Cambrai. The WANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY is a short distance south-east of the village just off the D 35 road.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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